Meanders Formation Quotes & Sayings

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece — Vladimir Nabokov

You are my water. Making love with you is all I need to quench my thirst. Why would I throw this away for water from the ocean? — Sylvain Reynard

MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well. — Herschel Walker

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer. — Jill Lepore

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming. — George R R Martin

I'd never seen so many books. Never. The sight made my eyes water. I mean, tear right up. — Carol Lynch Williams

I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair. — Vladimir Nabokov

To be in pilgrimage is to have not yet arrived. There is a longing in prayer that is never fulfilled in this life, and sometimes the deep satisfactions we are looking for in prayer feel few and far between. Prayer is a journey. — Timothy Keller

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' ... I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey. — Edward Teller

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable. — Stephen Richards

Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim
At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust. — Andrew Jackson Downing

The interview took place in Miss Banks' private sitting room while Maia waited in the hall, and as soon as she saw Mr. Murray's face, Miss Minton knew there was no hope. She would not even be allowed to look after Maia during the holidays. She was in complete disgrace.
Miss Minton had spent the night with her sister and bought another corset, because the good times were gone. — Eva Ibbotson

Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance. — Alain De Botton

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. — Ian Williams